Be sure to visit I*EARN
( International Education and Resource Network) page. *Educators
need to think about the educational designs that follow from technical
capabilities *. You are bound to learn something interesting
here!

John
Higgins, at The University of Stirling, also has
a very interesting web-site, with software to download.

Judi Harris (of Mining the Internet
fame), has a very interesting Network-Based Educational
Activity
Structure which is an exemplary collection of network-based
educational activities. I recommend that you visit her Virtual
Architecture site.

The
Virtual Classroom is a site where you can sign up your
classes to take part in a number of projects. This link will take you
to the Teachers' Area.

A
WEB-Quest is a type of activity which allows you to use the
WEB at its most powerful. Take a look at the Web-Quest search engine
which will allow you to choose sample web-quests for all levels and all
topics. Students can take part in a group-centred project on almost any
topic, and present the results to the rest of the class.

Try TeleCollaboration
, with NickNacks, where you will be able to feast your eyes on the huge
Projects
Page . If you don't like following other people's
ideas, why then - you might want to start your own project. NickNacks
tells you
how .

The English Maze
, to quote the authors, is a British-Australian web-based
learning system for ESL students, teachers and schools in South Korea
and worldwide. It combines leading language learning theories with
cutting edge technology to bring users a unique approach to learning
English. With the English Maze, students can improve their
pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. The
site contains hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free.
Comprehensive free lesson plans are also provided for ESL teachers.

Grammar
Points , by Anne Salzmann, is another interesting
site for students, with a complete list of links for
grammar practice.

Pearson Brown
has created a multitude of different exercises (all excellent)! Visit
his site, but more particularly see his Grammar
Exercises , or his
Multi-Word Verb (Phrasals, anyone?) exercises. There are lots
more, so be sure to explore the site. . .

Have your students pay a visit to the University
of Victoria's English Language Centre's Study Zone
. They will be able to choose exercises appropriate for their level.

The
Guide to Grammar
and Writing (by Professor Charles Darling, sadly
now deceased) now has
some very exciting material: wonderful animated PowerPoint
slides
to help you explain grammar (You can choose the file you want at the
link I give you
here). The OHP
and the blackboard can't hold a candle to the visual power of these
slides! You can download the slides to show them to your students.

The
On-line English Grammar is exactly that - a web-site where
you can point your students in the right direction for improving their
grammar.
You will see this encouraging sentence: "This grammar has been put
on-line by Anthony Hughes and is available free of charge for anyone
to use" but don't forget to read lower on the page:.
. . "This and all associated pages of the grammar are copyright
(copyright Anthony Hughes 1995)." Be SURE you obey the copyright
injunctions!

The Paradigm
Writing Assistant is an interactive site where students will
be able to get help with many topics: Discovering
what to Write , Organising
your writing, Writing
Informal
Essays, Revising
, Editing
, and more.

If you want
to help your students with vocabulary while they're reading, lead them
to the
VoyCabulary(tm) site. This
is a site that allows one
to enter a url or a text, and all the words at that url or in the text
become hot-linked to a dictionary or thesaurus. (As for translation,
there are ten languages provided for, so far). I suggest that you visit
the site first, though, so that you can help your students with it.
Many thanks to Ruth Vilmi for asking the right question and to Vance
Stevens for sharing the right answer!

William
Shakespeare Home Page at the Internet
Public Library (you will see his works on bookshelves and you
need to click on the work you want to reach it). A Google search
on
William Shakespeare gave me the message: "Results 1-10 of 29,600,000
for William Shakespeare". I
didn't think you needed quite so many links, so I only included this
one,
with the complete works. Let this be your starting point.

Teaching
the American Literatures is a web-page with
articles, lesson plans, etc., which could help you better plan your
teaching of these literatures. I have purposely NOT included
a particular author, because the choice should be yours.

This Literary
Resources on the Net link will take you to a search page,
where you will be able to search for the author of your choice. Just
type his / her name in the box provided and click on the search
button. You can also click on one of
sixteen (16!) categories to go to other areas of search. I find this
impressive!

There is one really great site in Switzerland which
you might want to visit: The SwissEduc page.
Of particular interest
is their list of
books which can be read with Upper Secondary
classes. There is supplementary material available, and you can
contribute if you so desire! Their choices range from Chinua Achebe
(Things Fall Apart ) to John Wyndham
(The Day of the Triffids and
The Chrysalids), with over seventy other authors in
between, as of this writing (05/05). Be sure to visit the main
SwissEduc page, though, because there is a great deal more than just
lists of books. It's a must-see site!

Dave's
ESL Cafe This site was created and is maintained by
Dave Sperling. He describes it as being For ESL/EFL Students and
Teachers from Around the World. If you click on stuff for teachers,
you will find LOTS of material and ideas from teachers all over world;
there is also a place where you can sign up so as to be able to answer
questions from students from around the world; you can also visit
the Slang Page
, if you want to sound "cool" and "with it" when you talk to your
students.

If you want to buy software, but don't know what to
buy, there is help at hand! Whether you use a PC or a MAC, you ought to
visit the TESOL CALL
Interest Section's Software
List. The authors (Deborah Healey
and Norman Johnson ) are still working on it, but
they promise us that * soon * we
will be able to search the list.

Professor Paul Brians'
Common Errors in (American) English will give you a list of
commonly made errors. You will even be able to get the entire list
(which is humongous!) as a single plain-text (or ASCII) file. Click
here to get the file ERRORS.TXT. Then you can save it to your
hard disk... Inveterate Anglophiles, take note: these errors are
for American English!

Deborah Healey
has prepared some wonderful
Technology Tips to help us out. If
you want help on topics - from "Backing Up" to "Web Search Tools", and
many, many more, please visit this page.

Some teachers
like
to use Graphic Organizers (something like "mind maps"). You can
find some varied samples at the
Activity
Bank site.

Here are some
vocabulary lists available for Wordstore (version 2.0). To see what is
available, and to download the files (which you will only be able to
use WITH Wordstore, by Wida Software), click
here.

Over the
years I have created some worksheets for use in the study of various
works of literature. Many of the ideas were adapted from the wonderful
book by Joanne Collie and Stephen Slater
, Literature in the Language Classroom
(which I recommend very highly). To go to the area where you can get
the worksheets, click
here. By the way, I hope to
transfer all of these sheets to an Adobe Acrobat format as soon
as possible, so as to cater to those who use Macs in their work. Please
be patient. . .

Here are some evaluation grids which I use for my
students' written and oral work. To go to the area where you can read
about them and download them, click
here. You will now also find a grid with which
my students evaluate my
teaching.

For those of
you still hesitating to use IPA fonts in handouts for students,
here is a little bit of assistance
in setting up the fonts for use on your PC. This document is a
co-production by Florence Durand and Lilliam Hurst. You can download
the fonts via ftp
(=file transfer protocol) from SIL International. Click
here.

Do you want to see what other colleagues in Canton
Geneva have done? Click
here. If you are an English teacher
in Canton Geneva , and would like to see your work described,
click here
to send me a message telling me so.

The
instructions below are specifically for colleagues and students who
work in Geneva, Switzerland

You might want to learn how to write HTML (hypertext
markup language) documents so that you can make web pages of your own!
If you want to learn on your own, be sure to visit Joe Burns'
HTML Goodies
Primers! And, once you feel
comfortable with
the first seven steps (Joe expects you to do one lesson per day), then
stop by to visit Joe Burn's other HTML Goodies pages (including more
than
98 different lessons!), which you can reach by clicking
here.

I have just
discovered
Blackboard.com, and couldn't wait to share it
with you. As their blurb says: "This is a FREE service that enables
instructors to add an
online component to their classes, or even host an entire course on
the Web. Without knowing any HTML, you can quickly create your own CourseSite TM
- a Web site that brings your learning materials, class discussions,
and even tests online." I intend to try it out!

There are now some online exercises on the Students' Page.
You can see what they look like by clicking
here. If, after seeing them, you
want to download any of the authoring modules for your own use,
press the back button to come back here for a visit
to
the page for
Language Teaching programs by Martin
Holmes There you will find many different
programs, both for teaching and learning; each program has its own
download page, with instructions for you to follow.

After you
have looked carefully at both the exercises and the software, you might
want to learn how to use it on your own. Visit the course page from the
CPTIC
165 -Hot Potatoes seminar , and follow the
tutorial in your language. To be perfectly honest with you, you don't
need a "face-to-face" seminar to learn how to use the wonderful Hot
Potatoes software! You can have a personal, ever-present, ever-patient
instructor right at your elbow in your own home...

There are also other types of
authoring software that you can use, and a lot of it is free. Look at E. L. Easton's site
for a very useful list.